STARKVILLE - In six days, the feeding tube will be pulled on the 2016 Mississippi State season, all efforts to revive the patient having been exhausted here at Davis Wade Stadium where Mississippi State fell to Arkansas 58-42 on Saturday, ending the Bulldogs faint bowl hopes and ensuring their first losing season in seven years.

When 37-year-old Maurica Standifer was indicted on a possession of cocaine charge, the mother of two felt she had only two choices: She could go to jail, or she could apply for a special rehabilitation program with the District Attorney's Office and possibly have the charges dropped completely from her record.

The Beacon, one of Mississippi's oldest newspapers, has published continuously since 1849. That's 167 years and more than 8,600 editions. Harold Long has had his hands on more than a third of those weekly papers.

At 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, 15-year-old Landon, a resident of Palmer Home for Children, will be on his way to Starkville where he and other teenage residents raise money at every Mississippi State University home college football game for the organization they call home.

The Mississippi State EcoCAR 3 team will combine craft beer and muscle cars with environmental advocacy in Gears & Beers, a promotional event for its customized 2016 Camaro Thursday at Mayhew Junction Brewing Company.